Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence Bade - Bender

Box 10, Folder 57

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence Berger - Bradley

Box 10, Folder 58

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence, Bradshaw - Butler

Box 11, Folder 59

THE DIAL Correspondence,
1886

Box 11, Folder 60

THE DIAL Correspondence,
1887 - 1888

Box 11, Folder 61

THE DIAL Correspondence,
1889

Box 11, Folder 62

THE DIAL Correspondence,
1890 - 1891

Box 11, Folder 63

THE DIAL Correspondence,
1892 - 1898

Box 11, Folder 64

THE DIAL Correspondence,
1899 - 1901

Scope and Content Note

The Dial Correspondence is a collection of letters from Francis Fisher Browne, editor of THE DIAL. These letters are essentially personal,
but they contain many comments on the affairs of the times. Browne lived in Chicago, had been a soldier in the Union Army,
had a large family, and was greatly concerned with the literary, political, and social affairs of his era. He and Melville
Best Anderson were close friends and Browne published many of Anderson's reviews, essays and comments on literary subjects.

Box 12, Folder 65

THE DIAL Correspondence,
1903 - 1906

Box 12, Folder 66

THE DIAL Correspondence,
1907 - 1913

Box 12, Folder 67

THE DIAL Correspondence,
1913 - 1920

Box 12, Folder 68

Letters from readers of THE DIAL, mostly concerning articles by Anderson on Matthew Arnold in
1888

Box 12, Folder 69

Letters to Melville Best Anderson, General Correspondence, C - Cleland

David Starr Jordan and Melville Best Anderson were friends for most of their lives. They were at Cornell University at the
same time and later taught in the same town. Anderson came to Stanford when Jordan became President.

Box 16, Folder 99

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence L - Leddy

Box 17, Folder 100

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence Lees - Lyon

Box 17, Folder 101

Letters to Melville Best Anderson McClure Correspondence S. S. McClure and John Phillips. S. S. McClure was the Editor of
MC CLURES MAGAZINE

Physical Description: (Special Folder)

Box 17, Folder 102

Letters to Melville Best Anderson John Muir (Naturalist)

Physical Description: (Special Folder)

Box 17, Folder 103

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence, M - Marti

Box 17, Folder 104

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence, Mason - Mivieri

Box 17, Folder 105

Letterst to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence, Modern Language - Moulton

Box 18, Folder 106

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence N

Box 18, Folder 107

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence, O

Box 18, Folder 108

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence, Palmer - Perkins

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence, Willard - Wylie

Box 20, Folder 122

Letters to Melville Best Anderson from Anna Strunsky Walling

Physical Description: (Special Folder)

Note

Huntington letters from MBA to ANNA STRUNSKY WALLING

Box 20, Folder 123

Letters to Melville Best Anderson General Correspondence, X, Y, Z

Box 21

Container 21 holds Journals, Account Books, note books and Diaries. All are by Melville Best Anderson.

a. Ledger book, accounts, notes
1865 - 1874

b. Pocket Diary -- Class book(notes and lists of students, etc.)
1872

c. Pocket Diary -- also entries for 1875 and 1876.
1874

d. Class notes, European History lectures delivered by Goldin Smith at Cornell University. Also copies of poems by William
Rupelt, Dudley, Roswell Leavitt, David Starr Jordan, Melville Best Anderson, George A. Berry, Reynaldos di Nuntalvan and a
play in verse, by Melville Best Anderson

Poems: 1. to C. F. Lummis; 2. Sinking of the Laconia
1917;3. to David Starr Jordan
1920 and 1922;4. poem to brother Edward Playfair Anderson with a consignment of old books; Our Old Meeting House by S. P.

Letters of Louisa van Vleck to Charlena and Melville Best Anderson,
1886-1888

Box 35, Folder 331

Letters of Louisa van Vleck to Charlena and Melville Best Abderson and children,
1889 - 1896

Box 35, Folder 332

Letters
to Louisa van Vleck from Eva Burnchweiler,
1893 - 1896

Miscellaneous Letters

Box 36, Folder 333

Fragments

Box 36, Folder 334

Doubtful relatives

Box 36, Folder 335

John Anderson

Box 36, Folder 336

Mabel Anderson

Box 36, Folder 337

Baker

Box 36, Folder 338

Bacon, Charlotte

Box 36, Folder 339

Best, Carrie

Box 36, Folder 340

Best, Emma and Isabel

Box 36, Folder 341

Best, Harriet Cleveland

Box 36, Folder 342

Best, James

Box 36, Folder 343

Best, Susan (sister of Helen Best Anderson)

Box 36, Folder 344

Best, Louise, (sister of Helen Best Anderson)

Box 36, Folder 345

Best, William A.

Box 36, Folder 346

Dobbin

Box 36, Folder 347

Errington(cousin of Melville Best Anderson)

Box 36, Folder 348

Hall, Henry B. and Margaret

Box 36, Folder 349

Harris

Box 36, Folder 350

Hooper, L. J.; Louisa; Alfred E.

Box 36, Folder 351

MacDonald, Emma Morrow

Box 36, Folder 352

Mather, Jessie Best, niece of Melville Best Anderson

Box 36, Folder 353

Moore, Victoria (Mrs. Eli) niece of Melville Best Anderson

Box 36, Folder 354

Morrow, Ermina, Sister of Helen Best Anderson

Box 36, Folder 355

Oppenheim, Carrie (Niece of Helen Best Anderson)

Box 36, Folder 356

Playfair, J. W.; Jane; R. P.; Robert; Margaret(Mrs. E. W. Peters

Box 36, Folder 357

Potter, Arthur M.

Box 36, Folder 358

Potter, Isabel P. (Mrs. C. C. Potter)

Box 36, Folder 359

Schoffner, Eliza Best

Box 36, Folder 360

Smith, Isabel Best

Box 36, Folder 361

Sternes, Matilda

Box 36, Folder 362

Vrebus, Margaret (cousin of Helen Best Anderson)

Box 37, Folder 363

Letters of Byron Gurnee, brother of Louisa Gurnee van Vleck to members of the family.
Some undated, 1892 - 1908

Box 37, Folder 364

Letters of Inez Gurnee, Daughter of Byron Gurnee and Mary Gurnee, to members of the Anderson Family, and Mary Gurnee.

Box 37, Folder 365

Letters of M. Gurnee to his sister Louisa Gurnee van Vleck,
1862

Box 37, Folder 366

Letters of Dor Austin Gurnee (brother of Louisa Gurnee van Vleck, father of Elizabeth Gurnee who married Malcolm Playfair
Anderson) to his wife Julia Leach Gurnee. Civil War Letters. And to his sister and nephew Robert.

Genealogical Notes and Death Certificate of Charlena van Vleck Anderson

Box 39, Folder 381

Genealogical Notes, Anderson Family

Box 39, Folder 382

Genealogical Notes, Melville Best Anderson

Box 39, Folder 383

Genealogical Notes, Gurnee Family

Box 39, Folder 384

Genealogical Notes, van Vleck Family

Box 39, Folder 385

Genealogical Notes, Playfair Family

Box 39, Folder 386

Genealogical Notes, Best and Playfair Families

Box 39, Folder 387

Genealogical Notes, Robert van Vleck Anderson

Box 39, Folder 388

Genealogical Notes, Edward Coffin Anderson

Notebooks of Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 40, Folder 389

Early Exploring of Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 40, Folder 390

Japan Korea and China

Physical Description: 4 volumes

Note

(Last vol. is 97-082)

Box 40, Folder 391

China

Physical Description: 5 volumes

Box 40, Folder 392

Catalogue of Mammals, Duke of Bedford Expedition

Box 40, Folder 393

Notebooks, Peru

Physical Description: 3 volumes only

Note

5/20/97

Expeditions of Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 394

Early Discoveries of Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 395

Alaskan Trip, Malcolm P. Anderson

Box 41, Folder 396

Big Sur, Collection of Mammals Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 397

Notes on Talks on China, Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 398

West China. Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 399

China Herald. Sowerby Article about Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 400

China, Chao-Cheng-Shau Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 401

China, Ordos Desert. Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 402

Manuscript, A Tale of Western China by Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 403

Manuscript, Dig Deep the Bars, A Tale of Western China, by Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 404

China, Tai-Yuau-Fu, Capital of Shausi by Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 405

Glen Alpine
1896Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 406

Japan, Letters of a Zoological Explorer in Japan by Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 407

Japan, Country Life, Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 408

Japanese Puzzle, Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 409

Malag (Bartons) and Alarib. Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 410

Mongol Women (Dress). Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 411

Mongolia, A Naturalist's Trip, Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 412

Peru, Bolivia. List of Type Localities Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 413

Rio Brauco. Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 414

Quelpart Island, South of Korea. Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 415

Siskiyou Mountains. Water Birds, List of Small Collection of Mammals. Malcolm Playfair Anderson

Box 41, Folder 416

Publications of Malcolm Playfair Anderson:

Scope and Content Note

Birds of the Siskyou Mountains, California; A Problem in Distribution. By Malcol m Playfair Anderson and Joseph Grinnell. From the
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Jan. 1903

War Map of Japan, Korea and China 1904 War Map of Russia and the Continent of Asia.

Folder 2

China

Physical Description: 6 Maps.

Scope and Content Note

Map of Southern half of Sakhelm Id. legend in Asian script.

Hakkaido legend in Asian script

Progress Map of Dignal Corps Telegraph Lines and Cables in the Military Division of the Philippines. Prepared under the direction
of Brigadier General A. W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer U. S. Army. Corrected to June 30, 1904.

Korean Archipelago, Southern Portion. Compiled from Admiralty Surveys made between the years 1845 and 1884 and and from Japanese
Government Surveys to 1889. Published at the Admiralty 30th of June, 1871 under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral G. H.
Richards, C.B.: F.R.S. Hydrographer. London. Large correction June 1883, Jan. 1886, Nov. 1899, April 1901, Sept. 1901 Soundings
in Fathoms. No. 104

West Coast of Korea Approaches to Seoul with Sir James Hale Group and Ta-Tong River. Tokio. Published at the hydrograph office
of the Japanese Naval Department under the superintendence of Rear Adm. N. Yanagi, I. J. N. Hydrographer. 20th March, the
19th year of Meiji (1886) No. 326

Western Portion of the Japan Sea Compiled from Japanese and Foreign Government Surveys to the 32nd year of Meiji (1889) Magnetic
Variation in 1907 Soundings in Fathoms. (Eastern Coast of Korea) No. 179

Member of Old Guard (first professors at Stanford) M.B.A. and Branner students together at Cornell. Advice concerning Robert
van Vleck Anderson, who was majoring in Geology....family news... comments on David Starr Jordan and administration at Stanford..
jingles about Stanford. Etc.

Folder 4

11
Bade, William
1917Pacific School of Religion-Berkeley. (regarding John Muir)

in Eisleben for 2 years. controlled the boys education. great factor in family. Letters in German. Should be read to properly
evaluate the effect of this experience on Anderson family. M.B.A. never forgave C.v V.A. for the death of little Gertrude,
which he attributed to the poor housing and unsatisfactory conditions in Germany.